The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-19
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XIV by Arnati has just been sold for $500.
| Anumber of clergymen of the Episcopal
| Church OF Ireland are in favor OF holding
services in the Irish tongue IN certain
parishes.
Miss Nellie King is the crack detective, OF
Minneapolis. She Is only twenty year., oid:
taker. She recently went out to frankfort,
d. T., and worked out one OF the biggest
land cases of the year.
Miss Belle Burrows and Virginia Springer,
| two young ladies of New Martlnsvllle, w.
| burning store during regent tire The
| kegs at the time were so hot that they had to
cover them with wet rags before handling
them.
1t is said that the late Alvan, Clark, the
| most eminent manufacturer OF telescope
It was his business to take the lens which
others had prepared and give it the exquls-
ite finish without which it would be useless
to the astronomer.
Women of the Salvation Army abroad
have heart worked in India ink upon the
right shoulder. No matter whether she is or
is not in good standing, if she is sick or dies
away from home or in foreign country, the
sign of the heart entities her to care OF burial
at the expense Of the organization.
Astronomy with an Opera Glass" Will be
continued in the November number OF The
Popular Science Monthly with a. paper on
''The Stars of Autumn, in which many, OF
the most in 'rresting consultations and other
| celestial objects will be described.
Miss Alice Lonefellow. the daughter Of the
poet, has Just been chosen member or the
Cambridge school committee She has lately
been deyoting herself to the establishment
and management Of industrial and kinder
garten schools, and she ls one OF the trustees
OF the Harvard Annex. She was graduated
with high honors by womans college.
Thirty-two years ago, when Mrs. Helsn
| Fralick was little girl, she was stolen from
her parents in Chicago while her mother was
a guest at the former Lake Street Hotel.
day till a few, days ago, when her mother
called at her house IN Syracuse, N. Y, and
fully identified her long.lost daughter. A
scar on Mrs Fralick,s chin and portion Of
| which marks she had borne since childhood,
satisfied the mother that she had found her
child.
The devotees of that great American insE-
tuition, apple pie, says the New York Tribune,
will rejoice at the news which comes from
apple crop. The voice Of the fruit gatherer
is heard On every hill and IN every valley, and
it ceases not day nor night. Good. All his
tory shows that no people ever lost heart or
us life worth living q SO leng. as apples
were plenty intheir. cellars. Next winter IN
New England promises to be unusually gay.
The funeral Of Mile. Aimee, says Paris ca
BILE, showed how very few friends an actress
can count upon surviving her. In spite OF
amount to an orphan asylum for the children
of artists, and her well-inown generosity
during her active dramatic life. very few peo-
pie found leisure to 90 to the small church.
a crown Of flowers, but. the, company
gave nothing, and yet during the French
war Aimee sent from America 5000
francs to these very comrades. All
her fortune was bequeathed to charitable in
| stltutlons with the exception OF few
| friendly souvenirs.
A chastity collection of clothes. linen hats,
purses, rings, watches, chains, paintings,
timepieces. daggels, knives. guns, re,0lvers,
pistols, and otAer objects, which hay helped
been tried by the courts during the past year,
| were sod III Paris few days ago and bought
up by amateur collectors of the horrible.
The nalues OF the criminals to whom ths OBJ
iects had belonged were withheld, end thepur-
chasers had to exercise their own Judgment
or imagination in identifying their pnr-
chases. A knife, supposed to have been the
one with which, PranZini cut the, 'hroats of
his victims was bought at an exorbitant fig
ure by ali American, 1t Ia said.
when Sir Waiter Scott was gtay,ing with his
friend and brother-poet, Wordsworth, the
frugal fare-.at least in the article of liquor
at the bard of R5ydal's table did not quite
ne e pSbc" ana Pdy have s's' q IG
glass, 'unbeknown, as Mrs. Camp would
say, to Wordsworth, One day the two poets
were walking out together and they hap
pensesa to pass this same public" when the
his horror: "Weei: Mr.. Scott, have ye come &C, ,e
for your morning dram 7" thereby letting the
cat ont Of the bag, and covering Scott with
confusion.
Princess Bismarck is one of the most frugal
housewives. Her husband, the Prince, is
not addicted to hberality either. He has an
income Of about 81 20, 900 a year, and is fire.
quently made the recipient OF legacies
in amounts small and great from
patriotic admirers in every part of Ger
many. The other day man III Posen LETT
him in his will 1000 marks-about $500. The
Princess in speaking Of this to friend, said !:
I'm SO glad Bismarck got the money just at
this time wien he needs good steady horse
to ride: He siways refused to buy one Oh the
ground that he conldn't afford it,. But told
him to nse. this 1000 marks for the purpose.
Il comes in handy doesn't ityn It may be
| cess always uses the plain Bismarck" when
referring to her husband III the company of
friends.
|. pays to be successful explorer. An
offer Of $50. 900 has been made to Stanley
to write q book when he comes home, de-
| English, platform speaker. can make more
money thar Stanley i'll the American lecture
field: II. Il; Johnston, the explorer of Xiii
maniaro and the upper Congo, has just been
British consul at Zanzibar, where he gets a
big salary. Joseph Thomson has made a
competency out of his books. and. has
been n. handsomely !. paid besides to hunt
for tie Royal Niger Company. Burton, the
djscoverer of Lake Tanganyika, has made a
comfortable fortune by the sale of his books.
Among. Prejevalsky's brilliant honors is his
promotion to Generalship in the Russian
army, and Greedy has been advanced from
lieutenant to Brigad er General, and man
ages the Signal Service Bureau.
The Baltimore SIN prints the following
MI. Henry Turner, of Bryantowll, Md,
SHIPPED to A; g. Wertsner Il Co. last week a
der-a curiosity. The bird is. well made and
OF ordinary size. and Was Matched a little
over one year ago. 1t is perfect in exterior
conformation except that he has three legs,
to be, and the third one growing row eue ont
goes under the fence last. The leg is per- per.
ttctly Developed, bnt is only attached to the
body by ,cartliges. The drake is also said to
but two legs are used, though when swim.
ming the third leg is valuable as rudder.
Last winter the drake left the other domestic
fowls and went to The marshes and associated
with the wild ducks. After they had taken
their flight he was trapped and cooped up.
Re 10 vorsclous feeder. though he is never
fat'
During her recent visit to Paris Grown
Princess Stephanie of Austria went to Pere
la Chalse, where the placed on the tomb of
The poet. Henri Heine a crown bear
ing the following, inscription: ',Ihe EN-
admiration Of Empress Elizabeth for Heine
almost reaches Worship. She reads his poems
nearly every day and knows most of his